Historical Hockey Memorabilia Spring 2012
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/12/2012
What an exciting find! Offered here for the first time in the hobby is a 1967-68 Minnesota North Stars pre-season game-worn jersey. This incredibly rare white tie-neck beauty from the "Next Six" team's very first set was worn by veteran defenseman Pete Goegan, who was claimed from Detroit in the June 1967 expansion draft. The North Stars only wore these Wilson double-knit jerseys with Gerry Cosby tagging in the neck for their inaugural preseason games before switching to General Athletic dureen jerseys for their first regular season game against St. Louis. Among the variations in this style are the tie-neck front with the solid yellow collar, the original team logo with a more upright "N" that has a portion of the top left that slants down rather than sticking straight out, a curly number font similar to the one originally used by the Penguins, and smaller color bands on the sleeves and tails, the latter with the yellow and green reversed. A size 44 tag remains sewn beside the Cosby label in the neck. Though on the smallish side to begin with, this jersey has shrunk a bit; we now measure it out to a size 42. Nicely preserved with game use showing in dried bloodstains on the upper right front and marks on the left elbow. Though these jerseys were long thought lost for good, they were likely recycled as per the nameplate removal on the back and a circular patch removed from the front. The LOA that accompanies this unique 1967 expansion treasure theorizes that they were used by North Stars owner Walter Bush's Midwest Jr. Stars in the mid-1970s. What is important is that this example survived to show how the North Stars looked when they took the ice for the very first time.
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